[conspire] how to implement a stupid idea [Re: How not to do antispam, latest in a continuing series]

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015, at 09:57 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Tony Godshall (togo at of.net):
> 
> > Indeed Mr Brooklyn seems interested in discussing how he's working on
> > properly implementing the idea that you told him was stupid
> 
> I wouldn't be critical like that.
> 
> I'm sympathetic to system admins who try a diverse range of solutions to
> deal with the spam problem.  Not everyone _knows_ this approach has been
> tried and found disasterous, so I was attempting to share the fruits of
> prior work.

I honestly decided to punt on the spam problem by outsourcing my email
(to fastmail.com).

I can receive all my domain email there (for quite a few domains), it
costs me $40/yr, and they are, in my experience, better at handling spam
than anyone else I've seen. You can even pull in other IMAP mailboxes
and benefit from their filtering (though I think this is solving the
problem in the wrong place, so I don't do that).

It gives me the time and spoons to focus on the sysadmin tasks I enjoy
doing instead of hating the whole thing.

Oh, and they don't use you as a free outsourced Bayesian classifier,
unlike Google.

Deirdre